Childhood cirrhosis, hepatopulmonary syndrome and liver transplantation

G Tumgor, C Arikan, HA Yuksekkaya… - … transplantation, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… (HPS) is characterized as a triad: liver disease, intrapulmonary … analyze outcome of children
with HPS in liver transplant era. … the outcome of children with HPS in the liver transplant era. …

The hepatopulmonary syndrome: effect of liver transplantation

PA Lange, JK Stoller - Clinics in chest medicine, 1996 - chestmed.theclinics.com
… hypoxemia (PaO 2 < 50 mm Hg) from intrapulmonary right-to-left shunt would cause graft
failure or patient death also was expressed for pediatric liver transplant candidates with HPS. …

[PDF][PDF] Natural history of hepatopulmonary syndrome: impact of liver transplantation

KL Swanson, RH Wiesner, MJ Krowka - Hepatology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… of HPS, the relationship between transplantation and survival has not been … for liver
disease cause, model for end-stage liver disease (MELD), severity of liver disease by the Child

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and severity of hepatopulmonary syndrome and its influence on survival in cirrhotic patients evaluated for liver transplantation

JM Pascasio, I Grilo, FJ López-Pardo… - … of Transplantation, 2014 - Elsevier
… In this study, HPS was associated with liver dysfunction, as reflected by the Child-Pugh
class and its components (albumin levels and the presence of ascites), but was not associated …

Prevalence of hepatopulmonary syndrome in children

K Noli, M Solomon, F Golding, M Charron… - Pediatrics, 2008 - publications.aap.org
hepatopulmonary syndrome is defined as a triad of liver disease, … of hepatopulmonary
syndrome in adults with cirrhosischildren who attended the liver clinics or liver transplant clinic or …

Hepatopulmonary syndrome in children–is conventional liver transplantation always needed?

AD Willis, TA Miloh, R Arnon, KR Iyer… - … transplantation, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… patients with cirrhosis who did not undergo orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT), … liver
disease can adversely influence outcome (8). This has led to the model for end-stage liver disease

[PDF][PDF] Hepatopulmonary syndrome in children: a 20‐year review of presenting symptoms, clinical progression, and transplant outcome

S Warner, PJ McKiernan, J Hartley, E Ong… - … Transplantation, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) in stable patients with cirrhosis can easily be overlooked…
progression, and outcomes after liver transplantation (lt) in children with HPS. twenty …

[HTML][HTML] Occurrence of hepatopulmonary syndrome in patients with cirrhosis who are candidates for liver transplantation

LG Macêdo, EPA Lopes… - Jornal Brasileiro de …, 2010 - SciELO Brasil
liver function impairment, whether defined by the Child-Pugh … in patients with milder liver
dysfunction (Child-Pugh class A). (… patients with hepatic changes that were more severe (Child-…

Hepatopulmonary syndrome and liver transplantation: a review of the peroperative management of seven paediatric cases

L Van Obbergh, M Carlier, M De Kock, J Otte… - Pediatric …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
… of children undergoing liver transplantation and suffering from hepatopulmonary syndrome
… , we report here our experience in seven children. Despite the fact that severe arterial …

[HTML][HTML] Cirrhosis and hepatopulmonary syndrome

G Tumgor - World Journal of Gastroenterology: WJG, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… of adult patients with end-stage liver disease and in 9%-20% of children. The pathogenesis
of HPS has … At present, the most effective and only radical treatment is a liver transplant (LT). …